Word: dramatistic
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Richman, whose other interests include the merchandising of Elvis Presley collectibles, has not managed to restrain the manufacture of vulgar, blatantly exploitative junk. In After the Fall, a play about a Monroe-esque bombshell, Dramatist Arthur Miller, her real-life third husband, has the stage husband warn the heroine: "It's not the money they take; it's the dignity they destroy." True, even 20 years later...
...eyed stare, shock of unruly hair and his jeans and work shirts, he is the very picture of the bohemian composer, admirably captured in a huge portrait, Phil, by Artist Chuck Close that hangs in New York's Whitney Museum. Glass's adventurous collaboration with avant-garde Dramatist Robert Wilson resulted in Einstein on the Beach, an experimental five-hour "opera" that played to packed houses in Europe and twice sold out the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Satyagraha, a more conventional work based on an episode from the life of Gandhi, is perhaps the most...
Hamlet's frequent "O God" comes out "O Gahd," and the dramatist's "O Wonderful" has been turned into a Wittenbergian "Wunderbar," and "inexplicable" is mispronounced. On holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet comments, "I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. "But Walken says, "I knew him, [Long pause] Horatio a fellow of infinite jest." When we reach the Prince's dying words, Walken is so heedless of meter that the beautiful line. "Absent thee from felicity awhile" emerges with an accent on the first syllable...
...still, deep waters. The Family, nominated for a National Book Award in 1979, introduced the French-Canadian clan at home in Providence. Papa was a machinist, and his wife, mother of seven sons, a closet hysteric. Son Daniel, then an adolescent, proved to be a precocious observer and subtle dramatist of domestic conflict. In The Country (1981), Daniel was, like Providence-born Plante, a writer living in London. In 159 pages, that novel conveyed a surprising amount of what there is to know and feel about aging parents and brotherly attachments...
...Dramatist Dulack also fashions a flirtatious scene between Balthazar and Allan's ex-wife Liz (Joanna Merlin) and invents a hilarious kook's kook (Deborah Hedwall). The ethics of deprogramming do not trouble Dulack, as perhaps they should...